Rich and cool
Four brothers from a village in Gujarat who shifted to a small town called Amreli, about 100 km from Rajkot, started a humble cold drinks and ice-cream shop which has now grown into a Rs 259 crore turnover FMCG company, says Gurvinder Singh
Brave brothers
Brothers Bhavesh and Rohit chose not to join their father’s business, but instead charted their own course, struggling, and toiling hard to build a Rs 50 crore turnover car and two-wheeler cover manufacturing unit, says Gurvinder Singh
Revamp, renovate, reboot
After refurbishing his family-owned kirana store in the small town of Saharanpur in western UP, Vaibhav Agrawal decided to replicate the model in other stores, which became a Rs 1 crore turnover business in just two years, says Sofia Danish Khan
Acing Sales
From being a shy teenager who had to be pushed by her mother to do door-to-door sales of products from their boutique, Bhavna Juneja went on to build a USD 65 million turnover business empire in less than 20 years, says Sofia Danish Khan
Eat and ease
Abhishek Nath dropped out of dental college and decided to chart out his own path. After trying several jobs and ventures, he developed a toilet-cum-cafe chain, which grew into a Rs 18 crore turnover business in just two years, says Gurvinder Singh
Muscle and cash
Subhrajyoti Paul Chowdhury’s father taught him the value of money at a young age and he lost no time in identifying his calling in a gym in Kolkata soon after his graduation and today owns a Rs 2.6 crore gymnasium chain, says Gurvinder SIngh
Love and chocolates
Sanjana tied the knot when she was just 21 with her boyfriend and went to the UK along him for her higher studies. The couple returned to India in 2014 and set up a patisserie in Mumbai, which has now become very popular, says Sofia Danish Khan
Model enterprise
Born into an agriculture family, Selvakumar Varadharajan returned to his roots by setting up a venture that is helping farmers sell at a higher price than mandi rate and is bringing quality milk and farm produce to city customers, says Usha Prasad
Words of power
For Amitansu Satpathy, founder of Best Power Equipments, a Rs 200 crore turnover company, his father’s motivating words was the driving force in his pursuit to excel in his studies and later on in his business. Sofia Danish Khan has his story
King of spices
Mahashay Dharampal Gulati, the iconic owner of the spices brand 'MDH' and India’s highest paid CEO in the FMCG space, with a salary of Rs 21 crore, arrived in Delhi after partition with Rs 1,500 and rebuilt the family business from scratch
Giving away cash
Making a business of sharing your income is the underlying principle of CashKaro, one of India’s largest cashback portals founded by Rohan and Swati Bhargava. The portal has paid cash worth Rs 150 crore to customers, says Sofia Danish Khan
Chai, garam chai
Four years ago, a young man, who couldn’t get admission in any business school of his choice to do an MBA, came to Ahmedabad from a village in MP and set up a tea stall with Rs 8,000, which is now a Rs 3 crore business, says Gurvinder Singh
Dream Chaser
Hailing from Aligarh, Aamir Qutub dared to dream big and landed in Australia to study MBA. Working in an airport as a cleaner and delivering newspapers to support himself, he went on to build a Rs 12 crore turnover company, says Sofia Danish Khan
Rising Star
Saravanan Nagaraj, a twelfth-fail from the small town of Virudhachalam in Tamil Nadu, went all the way to Virginia in the United States, to build a USD 2.5 million turnover company, breaking several barriers on the way, says Usha Prasad
The bird man
Senthilvela K held top positions in MNCs before chucking it all and plunging into poultry farming. He has brought his Midas touch into the poultry farms now, where his annual revenue has touched Rs 1.2 crore in just two years, says Usha Prasad